5 Women of Color in Mystery on the Complex Histories of LA By Nancy Jooyoun Kim Often depicted as a playground for the rich, a city of movie and sports stars, muscle, and palm trees against spectacular sunsets, Los Angeles as a setting has long fascinated mystery readers with seedy and sensational stories that […]
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Book Review: The Potato Masher Murder
Book Review: The Potato Masher Murder (The Strand Magazine proudly presents this book review of The Potato Masher Murder.) Decades after the fact, it’s disturbing to discover that a member of your family was murdered. It’s even more shocking to discover that another family member was responsible for that violent death. This scenario actually happened to […]
Small town, small crime?
Small town, Small Crime? By Vanessa Savage I love setting my books in small towns because the smallest crime, which might go unnoticed in a city, is shockingly huge in a village. For a writer, it can be challenging – it is so much harder for the perpetrator to hide his or her crime […]